On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:22:30AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > We have a lot of troubles when upstreams ship a debian/ directory > in upstream tarball, thus I'll expect derivatives will have similar > problems
I don't see it that way. The reason why we have 'a lot of troubles' when upstreams ship a debian/ directory, is because upstreams usually supply that directory as a courtesy to make life 'easier' for those people who want to build a Debian package out of their SCM repository, and that as a result, they are usually not even remotely Policy-compliant. Thus, we need to do a *lot* of work to get them integrated properly; and any files that keep lying around in debian/ might interfere with other things. Debian packages from the Debian distribution usually are policy-compliant and maintained, so this kind of problem does not manifest itself as often for our downstreams (of course there are packages that are not maintained nor policy-compliant, but then they don't tend to live long in the distribution). -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org